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Fakes or not, they're matter an energy in a 'place' that should have neither unless they're 'travelling in hyperspace'. Though I guess you can say they're ships or animations on …
14 Aug 2010, 21:01
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I can't help feeling that the question of who is who is just not very interesting unless 'who' turns out to be someone we know for more than 2 pages. (Corollary: if his mother is…
14 Aug 2010, 20:58
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The last columns look like check digits, but there's an infinite way those could be computed.... 3 to 5 is 2, 4 to 6 is 2, but who can guess what that means. The first 3 columns…
14 Aug 2010, 20:52
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I don't think anyone would make such a connection.…
14 Aug 2010, 19:24
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Jeff Wilson wrote (13-08-2010 21:33): I beg your pardon?…
13 Aug 2010, 20:41
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 20:43): I think any Incarnation will be equivalent, no matter the Briah it appears in. It's the rest of the Briah that may live to a higher or lower …
13 Aug 2010, 19:49
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Jeff Wilson wrote (13-08-2010 18:07): The Hierogrammates may not have complete control over Yesodian time and/or space.…
13 Aug 2010, 18:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (13-08-2010 01:52): I have my doubts that Master Ash belongs in the same universe or at least planet. His explanation of why he daren't leave the house sure…
13 Aug 2010, 18:53
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Ryan Dunn wrote (13-08-2010 16:39): At certain points it isn't clear to me why Briah should be equated with Urth. We're told there's hoomins out there in other planets.…
13 Aug 2010, 16:20
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 07:52): I don't even think it matters much. Certainly the whole purpose of the New Sun is to give Urth's humans a chance to create some kind of Hiero…
13 Aug 2010, 14:18
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 05:04): Nothing at all. I'm trying to explain to you why some of your contributions haven't been well received by some. I was under the impression yo…
13 Aug 2010, 13:50
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(I should have worded it 'How is the multiverse structured?'.) I find it likely. If, as Lee thinks - this time I think I'll present it correctly - universes twice removed from B…
13 Aug 2010, 01:01
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Well, I was trying to know where *David* stood...…
13 Aug 2010, 00:53
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This is where we part (none the least in what it implies interpretation-wise). I think Wolfe is much greater than that (in the artistic sense, though obviously the ethical one as w…
12 Aug 2010, 23:27
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I don't think I'm confusing you, but I was under the impression you agreed here. If not, what's your view of 1) Who created the Hieorgrammates? 2) What's the 'multiverse structur…
12 Aug 2010, 23:21
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You probably do not intend it, but your assertions on how your hyoptheses have support do not sit well with many. It's not the hypotheses themselves, it's both your insistence th…
12 Aug 2010, 23:12
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Well, evil is more distributed on Urth, hence more diluted, but so is good.…
12 Aug 2010, 22:59
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Yeah, that's interesting. I just have problems with the living-in-hyperspace thing, but that's not relevant here.…
12 Aug 2010, 22:56
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It would be really nice if you'd get an e-mail client that understood quoting. (This is not a jab; I really think the world would be a better place if everyone followed the perfe…
12 Aug 2010, 22:38
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Which are no more real than their contraries. Which actually is said in the text. Of course, the text may mean otherwise. You and Lee seem interested in not having more than two …
12 Aug 2010, 20:28
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We've been discussing the matter. Where were you?…
12 Aug 2010, 19:56
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:> The concepts of before and after are meaningless across universes. Time is a property of each universe, like space. Any other universe isn't in Briah's fu…
12 Aug 2010, 19:54
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Well, I meant the 'usually'. There is a reason why people qualify 'narrator' with 'unreliable'. Then of course all narrative in unreliable (I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
12 Aug 2010, 19:37
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 19:10): The way I see it, Yesod differs in that it connects to all the other universes. It probably has different properties as well, but that's not …
12 Aug 2010, 18:27
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (12-08-2010 18:41): I think it's only that: - Urth is similar but not quite like Earth: + the name + the apparent history + the geography (some o…
12 Aug 2010, 18:03
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote (12-08-2010 18:25): Not at all. The dialog doesn't go that way. It doesn't focus on how they are different, that's mostly a by-product. Sometimes you want …
12 Aug 2010, 17:57
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 17:06): Tzadkiel reveres Severian and Apheta despises him?…
12 Aug 2010, 16:13
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 15:40): Inuus's name was there in your original remark. Considering Wolfe's regard for linguistic rigor, I find an Inuus -> Inire substitution quite…
12 Aug 2010, 14:54
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David Stockhoff wrote (12-08-2010 13:33): Can obviously be, but the text doesn't convey that feeling to me. If it were to do so, I think it would be written differently. In fact …
12 Aug 2010, 14:18
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 13:14): (_Inire_ may have been (was) used in copulating context, but that wasn't its primary meaning, not any more than it is the primary meaning of e…
12 Aug 2010, 14:08
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Lee Berman wrote (12-08-2010 12:52): He says 'your own', then he says 'they'. To me that easily reads as 'your cognates'. If it were really 'you, not your cognates', I'd expect hi…
12 Aug 2010, 12:01
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Jerry Friedman wrote (12-08-2010 02:25): That one is tricky. If the translator knew that whatever the original was, it was 'a city where you study art', then he knows much more a…
12 Aug 2010, 11:23
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Craig Brewer wrote (11-08-2010 16:32): Bravo. Doubtlessly someone will now completely miss your point and say that you are free to read the stories 'just as stories' but please …
11 Aug 2010, 16:30
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Hi. A person can't go away for a while! Time is part of the Universe. St Augustine knew that, physicists understand that, and GW surely takes it into account. One can't really c…
11 Aug 2010, 14:03
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And isn't Typhon supposed to be *2* thousand years before Severian? (Never mind that Typhon was up there in his mountain all the time. Did no one think of going there?)…
01 Aug 2010, 22:29
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Jeff Wilson wrote (01-08-2010 04:49): Does anyone else get the idea that Vodalus isn't the brightest candle in the box?…
01 Aug 2010, 06:19
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Jeff Wilson wrote (29-07-2010 21:46): Were the ottomans a remake of the byzantines? 'Ihr w?hnt uns in weiter Ferne, doch sind wir so nah' must be one of the most beautiful lines…
29 Jul 2010, 22:30
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Lee Berman wrote (29-07-2010 14:01): It's not exclusive to Wolfe's work. In fact, it only works in very specific circumstances. Which may be often met, but are very specific nonet…
29 Jul 2010, 14:30
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Pedro Pereira wrote (29-07-2010 13:31): I don't even know that it would be very difficult. Just put the thing into moving pictures. Of course, a lot of detail would have to be le…
29 Jul 2010, 14:26
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Why does this scene keep popping up in the story?…
20 Jul 2010, 21:27
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I put that in the subject because it's one of the things that made me laugh when I first read the books. Wasn't Ymar a torturer? Has anyone analyzed the significance of both the …
19 Jul 2010, 13:04
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David Stockhoff wrote (19-07-2010 12:44): This question ties in with something that's been bothering me, namely the notion that Inire is a very important character that mandates e…
19 Jul 2010, 13:02
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No dia 2010/07/18, ?s 05:44, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> escreveu: I've never given it much thought. The names in Viron's religion seem Greek so I just assumed patera and …
18 Jul 2010, 15:01
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James Wynn wrote (16-07-2010 16:46): Yeah, I wouldn't draw strong conclusions from the usage of a term that apparently means 'brother'. But I think it's suggestive that a term me…
16 Jul 2010, 17:34
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John Watkins wrote (07-07-2010 19:12): I finally got around to revisiting the letter. First thing of, he refers to himself as 'Inire'. That suggests against mangling of the name…
16 Jul 2010, 11:34
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Jerry Friedman wrote (13-07-2010 19:47): You're right. Should I have written 'long e', then? I can't bring myself to it. D'oh. Of course.…
14 Jul 2010, 12:57
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Jerry Friedman wrote (13-07-2010 21:51): But with "Whatchoo lookin' at?" how do tie the answer to the question so neatly?…
14 Jul 2010, 12:55
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I.e. ['fAT at rI'naI at r] LH says an audiobook has in-EER [I'ni at r] while his? own pronunciation is in-EER-ay [I'ni at re]. I default to your pronunciation as well, but somet…
13 Jul 2010, 02:01
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James Wynn wrote (12-07-2010 21:10): I always associate Father Inire with Dworkin from Zelazny's Amber novels. Dworkin is supposed to have fathered the king of Amber through a un…
12 Jul 2010, 21:50
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John Watkins wrote (12-07-2010 22:33): I suppose the default pronunciation is ['fAT at rI'naI at r]. Does this look like something else mistranscribed? The 'father' part is more…
12 Jul 2010, 21:47
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